Footnote

a “This remark in the 14th verse is the inference of the whole parable and not of the part about the man without the wedding garment.”​—Page 104 of Barnes Notes on the New Testament, printing of 1963. The Jerusalem Bible (1966) says, in a footnote on Matthew 22:14: “This sentence appears to refer to the first part of the parable rather than to the second. It is a question not of the elect as a whole but of the Jews, the first to be invited. The parable . . . neither asserts nor denies that some (a ‘few’) of the Jewish people have accepted the invitation and are ‘chosen’.”